Welcome to my website!
I am a Postdoctoral Scholar in Education at the Stanford Center on Longevity.
I am a sociologist of education whose research focuses on educational organizations, such as schools and universities, and investigates how their practices and decisions either contribute to or mitigate the social stratification of educational opportunities, especially along race and class lines. Broadly, my research has two main objectives:
I analyze various organizational practices across all levels of education. So far in my career, I have looked at practices such as curriculum differentiation, special education identification, and higher education policies to address the educational needs of adult and working learners.
Methodologically, I view the growing field of computational social sciences as an opportunity to address questions which have imposed methodological challenges to traditional techniques. Then, my research relies on a series of computational approaches, including machine learning and agent-based simulations. I believe these approaches offer a unique chance to better bring sociological theory and qualitative evidence into quantitative analyses of educational processes.
I am originally from São Paulo, Brazil. I hold a Ph.D. in Sociology of Education from the New York University (2023) and a B.A. in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2017).
Please navigate across the pages to learn about my research; teaching; and to access selected resources.
Education
policy
Organizations
Social
stratification
Social and
racial inequality
Computational
methods
Ph.D. Sociology of Education, New York University. 2023.
M.Phil. Sociology of Education, New York University. 2021.
B.A.
Economics with mathematical emphasis, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2017.
For research/publication purposes, I hyphenate my last name: Souto-Maior.
Rachel Fish, Kenneth Shores and
New York
University — from Spring 2019 to Spring 2021
New York University — Fall 2022
New York University — Fall 2022
New York University — Spring 2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2016-17
University of Wisconsin-Madison — 2015-16
Essays on the dynamics of
Black-White advanced course-taking inequalities
Areas of concentration:
school organization; quantitative methods.
Website last updated on December 15, 2024